Abstract:

An experiment based on photonuclear reaction was performed to measure half-life and study the gamma-transitions for scandium nucleus with bremsstrahlung photons of 18 MeV end point energy, generated by a clinical linear accelerator. These photons were used to irradiate scandium sample. The HPGe detector calibration for before and after counting was carried using standard point sources and a volume source. For analysis of results and spectrum gf3 and ROOT package was used. As a result of this experiment 45Sc(γ,n)44Sc gamma-ray energies, associated errors and half-life value of 44Sc from ground state were calculated and found in agreement with the published literature values.

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